A FESTIVAL OF FICTION SEPTEMBER 26TH

Hey, guys!

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, but my excuse is I’ve been busy writing other stuff!  Mainly my novel, Problems of Translation, on which I’ve completed eleven chapters since the spring, some of whose passages will be tapped for my upcoming reading.

That’s right, another reading is around the corner, another of my twice-a-year fun fests at the Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village (www.corneliastreetcafe.com).  This one is an all-fiction evening.  Cornelia’s veteran ringmaster, Angelo Verga, has arranged it so that two other terrific short-story writers will join me.  Personally, I can hardly wait.

One of the other readers is Alethea Black, who has a debut collection out called I Knew You’d Be Lovely, which has been declared both a Barnes and Noble ‘Discover Great New Writers’ pick and an Oprah.com book of the week.  And the other is Sandra Leong, who has not only been widely published (Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Conjunctions and more), but has now walked off with the 2012 Pushcart Prize for Fiction!  Not too shabby!

And from me, of course, you’ll not only hear of the further adventures of my ditsy hero, Charles Abel Baker, as he flits around the world seeking to get his short story translated successively into ten different languages before returning it to English, finding calamity greeting him at every turn; you’ll also hear from the short story I recently published in The Same, called “Chasing the Condor.”  Just came out a week ago.

My flurry of productivity on Problems I attribute to the inspiration of the Sirenland workshop in Positano, Italy I attended in late March and early April.  Inspiring in every way:  scenery, food, lodgings, readings, good company, and brilliant thoughts about writing!  In any event, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Hope to see you on September 26.  Mark it down!

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